NAMES IN THE NEWS : Graham Hails Soviet Christianity
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ASHEVILLE, N.C. — The Rev. Billy Graham says the political upheaval in Eastern Europe is overshadowing another revolution there--a surge in Christian faith.
“This is something new,” said the 71-year-old evangelist. “They have a freedom to talk and preach and have Bible classes.
“They are beginning to print thousands of Bibles in the Soviet Union, and in many places I understand that Sunday schools are being opened, which have been forbidden through all these years. They’ve had 70 years in which none of these things happened.”
Graham said the growing religious fervor in Eastern Europe was evident in July, when 100,000 packed a stadium in Budapest, Hungary, to hear him.
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